Or for the sight

Of lingering night,

Forego the present joys of noon?

Tho' ne'er so fair

Her speeches were,

Forego me now, come to me soon!"

How at last agreed these lovers ?
She was fair, and he was young:
The tongue may tell what th' eye
Joys unseen are never sung.
Did she consent,

Or he relent?

discovers;

Accepts he night, or grants she noon?
Left he her maid,

Or not? she said,

"Forego me now, come to me soon!"

HIS LOVE ADMITS NO RIVAL.

SHALL I, like a hermit, dwell,
On a rock, or in a cell,
Calling home the smallest part
That is missing of my heart,
To bestow it where I may
Meet a rival every day?

If she undervalue me,

What care I how fair she be?

Were her tresses angel gold,
If a stranger may be bold,
Unrebuked, unafraid,

To convert them to a braid;
And with little more ado
Work them into bracelets, too?
If the mine be grown so free,
What care I how rich it be?

Were her band as rich a prize
As her hairs, or precious eyes,
If she lay them out to take
Kisses, for good manners' sake:
And let every lover skip
From her hand unto her lip;
If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?

No;

she must be perfect snow, In effect as well as show;

Warming but as snow-balls do,

Not like fire, by burning too;
But when she by change hath got
To her heart a second lot,
Then, if others share with me,

Farewell her, whate'er she be!

JOSHUA SYLVESTER,

WHO in his day obtained the epithet of the silvertongued, was a merchant adventurer, and died abroad at Middleburg, in 1618. He was a candidate, in the year 1597, for the office of secretary to a trading company at Stade; on which occasion the Earl of Essex seems to have taken a friendly interest in his fortunes. Though esteemed by the court of England (on one occasion he signs himself the pensioner of Prince Henry), he is said to have been driven from home by the enmity which his satires excited. This seems very extraordinary, as there is nothing in his vague and dull declamations against vice, that needed to have ruffled the most thinskinned enemies-so that his travels were probably made more from the hope of gain than the fear of persecution. He was an eminent linguist, and writes his dedications in several languages, but in his own he often fathoms the bathos, and brings up such lines as these to king James.

So much, O king, thy sacred worth presume I on, James, the just heir of England's lawful union.

His works are chiefly translations, including that of the Divine Weeks and Works of Du Bartas. His claim to the poem of the Soul's Errand, as has been already mentioned, is to be entirely set aside.

STANZAS

FROM "ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS."

To Religion.

RELIGION, O thou life of life,

How worldlings, that prophane thee rife,
Can wrest thee to their appetites!
How princes, who thy power deny,
Pretend thee for their tyranny,
And people for their false delights!

Under thy sacred name, all over,
The vicious all their vices cover;
The insolent their insolence,

The proud their pride, the false their fraud, The thief his theft, her filth the bawd,

The impudent their impudence.

Ambition under thee aspires,

And Avarice under thee desires;
Sloth under thee her ease assumes,
Lux under thee all overflows,

Wrath under thee outrageous grows,
All evil under thee
presumes.

Religion, erst so venerable,

What art thou now but made a fable,
A holy mask on Folly's brow,

Where under lies Dissimulation,
Lined with all abomination.

Sacred Religion, where art thou?

Not in the church with Simony,
Not on the bench with Bribery,
Nor in the court with Machiavel,
Nor in the city with deceits,

Nor in the country with debates;

For what hath Heaven to do with Hell?

SAMUEL DANIEL.
BORN 1562. DIED 1619.

SAMUEL DANIEL was the son of a music-master, and was born at Taunton, in Somersetshire. He was patronized and probably maintained at Oxford, by the noble family of Pembroke. At the age of twenty-three he translated Paulus Jovius's Discourse of Rare Inventions. He was afterwards tutor to the accomplished and spirited Lady Anne Clifford, daughter to the Earl of Cumberland, who raised a monument to his memory, on which she recorded that she had been his pupil. At the death of Spenser he furnished, as a voluntary laureat, several masks and pageants for the court, but retired, with apparent mortification, before the ascendant favour of Jonson1.

The latest editor of Jonson affirms the whole conduct of that great poet towards Daniel to have been perfectly honourable. Some small exception to this must be made, when we turn to the